Succession Planning

Nonprofit boards of directors can adapt these sample policies for CEO evaluation, compensation, and emergency succession. See also: the Kentucky Nonprofit Network's Sample Executive Compensation Policy.

Capturing the Power of Leadership Change: Using Executive Transition Management to Strengthen Organizational Capacity from The Annie E. Casey Foundation highlights the challenges associated with executive transitions and describes a model of executive management transition. 

Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out

This report combines perspectives and data from about 6,000 emerging nonprofit leaders from throughout the country on the advantages and drawbacks of leading a nonprofit organization. There are also recommended action plans for nonprofits to engage with immediately in order to bring about real change and develop great leaders for tomorrow. 

Over the course of 15 years, CompassPoint conducted four national studies of nonprofit executive leadership. In a companion essay to this study, ETM thought leader Tom Adams lays out how the field of ETM has evolved over 20 years of practice and where he and other experts see it going next. 

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The North Carolina Center for Nonprofits’ mission is education, connect, and advocate for North Carolina's nonprofits. A core value of the Center is to respect and include the wide variety of North Carolina’s people, cultures, regions, religions, and perpectives. Another important core value is helping nonprofits be effective in achieving their missions and accountable to their stakeholders.

From the Nonprofit Quarterly, this guide is a summary of the eight key business principles that should guide financial leadership practice.

An Executive Director’s Guide to Financial Leadership